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has since been engaging the attention of the government, particularly 
of the lately established Commission of Conservation; and the Couneil 
are advised that the Committee on Public Health will shortly report to 
the Commission as a whole whether the provisions of the Belcourt 
Amending Act adequately meet the needs of the situation. The 
Council will, nevertheless, be happy to act on any further instructions 
they may receive from the Society in the matter. 
11.—MEMORIAL TOWER AT HALIFAX. 
On the last day of our last Annual Meeting a letter was laid on the 
table from Mr. John E. Wood, Honorary Secretary of the Canadian Club 
of Halifax drawing the attention of the Society to the project of erecting 
at Halifax a National Memorial Tower to commemorate the first estab- 
lishment, on the 2nd October 1758, of parliamentary representative 
government in Nova Scotia, which was also its first establishment in any 
part of what is now Canada, or, with one or two exceptions of 
minor importance, in any of the present outlying possessions of 
the British Crown!. No action was taken by the Society as a whole 
upon this letter; but the proposal was one which appealed to several of 
its members, and the Society will be pleased to learn that one of its mem- 
bers, Sir Sandford Fleming, took it up with great interest and zeal, and 
apart from contributing substantially to the enterprise, represented 
and advocated it in various influential quarters in such a way as to place 
it upon a broader basis and gain for it a largely increased support. Not 
only have nearly all the Provinces of Canada, as well as the Dominion 
Government expressed their interest in the scheme and given it practical 
assistance—the last contribution and expression of sympathy having 
come from the distant territory of the Yukon—but many of the autono- 
mous possessions of the British Empire beyond seas have also lent their 
countenance and aid, and there is now a prospect that, in the end, the 
Halifax Memorial Tower, initiated in a spirit of enlightened patriotism 
by the Canadian Club of that city, will be the joint expression of the 
interest in popular representative institutions of the whole circle of 
British self-governing communities clustering round the parent state. 
A resolution of sympathy and congratulation by this Society would, the 
Council cannot doubt, be favourably received by those who have the 
enterprise in charge. 
12.— REFORM OF THE CALENDAR. 
This is a subject on which action has been suspended since the 
Annual Meeting of May 1908, when a report of Section III was adopted 

1 The exceptions referred to are certain of the West India islands. 
